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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
T Bone Burnett
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T Bone Burnett
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
St. Louis
Missouri
Joseph Henry Burnett III
T-Bone Burnett
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If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
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Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
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The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.
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When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.
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